[X] Figure out how to get to Soul Society on your own!
I wouldn't say this is reverse psychology. If we were some reluctant friend of Ichigo, sure! But instead we're something that makes them very nervous. They didn't expect us to exist and would much rather we never did. We're something they really aren't sure what, but it smells like hollow and it eats like a hollow...
Garganta is a very flexible power, one that would be very helpful, plus showing up in a separate group from the others, at a different time and places just lets us be even *more* mysterious.